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\r\nHi everybody I\u2019m Brian Clapp Director of Content for WorkinSports.com and this is the Work in Sports podcast\u2026
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\r\nI\u2019ve been doing some crazy outreach lately for podcast guests \u2013 I get pretty excited when I book a big guest, and I\u2019ll admit the chase is part of the fun.
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\r\nI message through linkedin, hit up a contact I know, make soe calls do some begging and try to present our podcast experience as a fun and informative conversation \u2013 a great deal of the time it works.
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\r\nOf course I hit some dry spells, or get some non answers \u2013 that\u2019s part of the deal 0 I\u2019m prepared for rejection, it happens. I don\u2019t take it personally.
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\r\nThis week something kind of new and fun happened, I reached out to an HR director with an MLB team someone really in charge of the hiring for this team and incredibly connected. And they said basically, I love your podcast, I\u2019ve heard people in the industry talking about it, and while I\u2019d love to be on\u2026 I\u2019m not comfortable with public speaking and I think I wouldn\u2019t\u2019 come off that well.
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\r\nFirst off \u2013 she said she\u2019s been hearing industry buzz about the podcast \u2013 she could have told me she was the Greek god of war sent directly by Zeus to murder me and I\u2019m not sure I would have heard it. I was kind of stunned and took a second to catch my breathe.
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\r\nI mean, I love the podcast, I know the information is great, I know the guests have loved being involved, I know the fans are growing and awesome\u2026but there is something about being told by someone you don\u2019t know, who is in a high ranking position with a team you have no connection too, that they\u2019ve heard of me and this podcast.
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\r\nThat\u2019s bonkers.
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\r\nAnyway, enough about my ego \u2013 I completely understood her conundrum, she wanted to help, but wasn\u2019t confident enough to go on the show. I get that. So I pivoted and asked\u2014well, can we just chat for a second about some of the biggest mistakes you see people make in their job search \u2013 and she said totally.
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\r\nShe\u2019s going to remain anonymous, because if we had done the podcast interview she would have needed to get approval from her communications team\u2026but in this instance we just figured her advice was the part we wanted to get out there.
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\r\nFirst off she said she and her team are directly responsible for hiring between 50-100 people per year in all departments. That\u2019s a lot of interviews, So she knows her stuff.
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\r\nListen in to the podcast to hear Brian's great sports career advice!
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\r\nEpisodes referenced:
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\r\n \t* Colleen Scoles
\r\n \t* Don Costante
\r\n \t* Cover Letters
\r\n \t* Follow up questions
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